Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If you do not have the money now, do not worry. It only takes US$100 to make reservations for the 2017 Swim Cruise through the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. Ivan Vranjes, Mateo Juric, and Lexie Kelly announced a 9-day, 8-night Swim Cruise that starts in Split, takes swimmers around the central Dalmatian islands
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yesterday, the Monster Mile was held in Newport Beach, California. The Monster Mile is a 2-mile biathlon for children that includes a 1-mile ocean swim and 1-mile ocean run. It is sponsored and organized by the Newport Beach Junior Lifeguards and held annually in August. Participants wear costumes and use
Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, Endless Pools in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers occasionally talk about sharks and jellyfish, cold water and currents. But those with long hair know a more frequent, but understated, problem occurs with swimming long distances: tangled hair that becomes matted under a swim cap and can become damaged by pool chemicals over time. "As
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Endless Pool exhibited its product on the West Coast of America with elite swimmers Megan Rankin and Lexie Kelly, curious conference attendees looked upon the young women swim effortlessly against the oncoming jet stream. Attendees would touch the warm water, and ask how they could use the product
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We mentioned practicing feeding and drafting in an Endless Pool in previous articles (posted here as well as kicking workouts (posted here), stroke technique (posted here), and strength-training exercises (posted here). But you can also practice sighting and the Endless Pool version of the Body Brain
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we think of swimmers with great kicking ability throughout open water swimming history, we automatically think of swimmers like Greta Andersen, Larisa Ilchenko and Jordan Wilimovsky. These swimmers always have great body position and always remain streamlined and balanced in the water, whether it was
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we watched open water swimmers Megan Rankin and Lexie Kelly practice in an Endless Pool, we observed how flat they swam with their heads aligned with their backbone and their hips riding in the water, whether they were swimming fast, swimming at pace, or swimming backstroke while feeding. Copyright ©
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Endless Pools are extremely useful, compact, free-standing pools with swim current generators that enable swimming in place. The pools can be used year-round and in locations (e.g., homes and training centers) where a normal size swimming pools may not be practical. The Endless Pools come in
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today was a long day at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Long Beach, California. First the divisioning heat was held where 87 athletes raced over the 1.5 km rectangular course. Based on their finish time, the athletes were grouped together for the finals to be held on Thursday. Then the United
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